• Journal of Soil and Groundwater Environment
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.36-43
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• 2007

In the case of single well pumping tests the storativities are generally overestimated. To compensate these errors, the effective wellbore radius should be introduced as a distance to an imaginary observation well in the time-drawdown analysis. Effective wellbore radius can be calculated through step drawdown tests or using skin factor equation. But both are of trial-and-error methods guessing real storativity values and, therefor, are difficult to apply to the field conditions. An equation was developed to estimate effective wellbore radius from storativity values obtained from pumping well data. For this study, a total of 136 time-drawdown data set were used to derive the equation. The effective wellbore radius were estimated first by changing them till the storativity values obtained from the pumping-well data match the ones based on the observation-well data. Then the equation was regressed from the relation between effective wellbore radius and the storativity values obtained from the pumping-well data. It is believed that the equation would be useful in estimating effective wellbore radius from the single well tests.

• Journal of Soil and Groundwater Environment
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.15-20
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• 2008

The investigation on the previous paper(Jn. of KoSSGE vol.12, no.3), which proposed three empirical equations for the different aquifers was carried out. To draw out a single equation from the three different equations the mean value of the involution factors was adopted allowing different proportional coefficients for the different aquifers. On the other hand it was found that the square root value of storativity ratio, ${\sqrt{{S_p}/{S_o}}}$ in each well is almost equal to its wellbore radius ratio, ${r_e}/{r_w}$. From this fact, the proportional coefficients can be substituted with assumed aquifer storativity and a generalized empirical equation for the effective wellbore radius has been derived.